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7 February 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT-+ “Requeste-ftom’ Mr, ‘Ober. for Basic”
Documentation Circa Mid-1967

‘1. Subsequent to his. second appearance before the Rockefeller ~*~
Commission on 3 February 1975, Mr, Ober returned to peadauarters a a
the afternoon of 6 February and the morning of 7 February to -_ ol
continue his review of the files he had developed while Chief, CI/so.
At the request of the Commission, he was particularly interested
‘in locating documentation which supported the creation of the Special
Counterintelligence Operation. ;

2. He had previously taken note of the 15 August 1967 .
memorandum from the DDP to C/CI but was interested i in determining _ -
whether there was any other documentation that could be used. In |
this context I showed him the following list of documents which r

had unearthed in: various and sundry places:

TAB A 4 August 1967 memorandum from Mr, Fred Virison, Je. oo!
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Lo
. Department of Justice to the Director of Central
Intelligence . oe

TAB B  .The Director's response to TAB AD

TAB C DIRECTOR 25628, 4 August 1967 -- book message originated
in WH Division in response to TAB A

TAB D WH/COG 67-259, 10 ‘August 1967 -- Memorandum from eo
Mr, Broe, C/WH Division, to Mr, Houston, General Ded
Counsel, detailing actions taken to respond to the 4 August
letter of Mr. Vinson (TAB A)

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‘TABG “DIRECTOR 27069, i1 1 August 1967, “to Copenbszss gen}

‘TABH . DIRECTOR 32283, 31 August 1967, bearing on Do

TABI 21 September 1967 memorandum from J, “Walter “Yeagley, ae

-TABI™ 22 September 1967 memorandum from the General Counsel 8

TAB L 28 September 1967 memorandum from ca Walter - Yeagley |

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TABE Relay of DIRECTOR 25628, 9 August 1967, to@russels)

TAB F DIRECTOR 26741, 10 August 1967, sending essentially 0.0) 00 |
the same message as DIRECTOR 25628 to additional = ce
European stations, specifically Cops nha gen ‘Holsinty Oal3,j

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@elsinki, Oslo, Stockholm,\ asking for cabled replies t to
DIRECTOR 26741 (TAB ¥F)

DIRECTOR 26741. (TAB F)

Assistant Attorney General, Internal.Security Division, .
‘Department of Justice, to Mr. Lawrence Houston, General
Counsel, CIA - :

-. to the Director of Current Intelligence, Subject "Stokely
Carmichael"

TAB K 28 September 1967 memorandum from a Walter x Keagley
to Mr, Lawrence Houston ~ = — .

to Mr. Houston .

TABM 3 October 1967 memorandum from Mr. Houston to”

Mr. Yeagley

TABs I through M were located in a file held by the Office of General -
Counsel entitled "Stokely Carmichael". The original letter to ao
Mr. Helms (TAB A) and his reply (TAB B) were located ina file held
by C/WH Division, as was a copy of the memorandum from Mr. Broe
to Mr. Houston (TAB D). The cables (TABs C, E, F, G and H) were
located in DDO/OPS/ITG RYBAT MHALPHA/MHIPASHA chronos.

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3, In the OGC file (Subject: Stokely Carmichael), there ; isa
series of memoranda from the DDI to Mr. Houston which is- obviously eS
- in reply to the Department of Justice requests for information on...
- Stokely Carmichael and his travels to Europe and Africa in the fall~
of 1967. Mr, Houston obviously served as the point ¢ of f relay for these aoe es
memoranda. t to the Department of Jastice. me woah mos

4, Mr. ‘Ober's second request was to try t to locate or ee
documentation from either the President or the White House to the ‘”
Director in mid-to-late October 1967 wherein the President asked . a ae
the Director to prepare a study on "International Connections \ with the Pog
United States Peace Movement", ; woe, ce

so rN 31 October 1967 memorandum for the record prepared - “
by Mr. Ober details a meeting held by C/CI Staff wherein C/CI states oS
that the President has directed such a study be made and indicates _
that the CI Staff will be the DDP unit responsible for providing DDP —
information to the DDI which will be charged with writing the studys _

6. A ‘1 November 1967 memorandum for the record written -
by Mr, Ober details the first meeting between the DDI and the DDP . :
on the subject of this study. Mr, Ober represented the DDP while
Mr, Godfrey (Director of OCI), Mr, Lehman and Mr, Peter Dixon Davis
represented the DDI. Mr. Davis was designated by 1 the Director, ocr. fs oate
to draft the study. - : ae

. 7 A third memorandum for the record prepared by Mr. Ober Sola,
on 1 November 1967 entitled "Progress Report" details action which -. _
he had taken at the request of Mr. Angleton to set in motion the . ;

’ necessary actions to collect information not only from DDP overseas
stations but from other government agencies which would be necessary
-in order forthe DDI to properly prepare this study. ;

8. DIRECTOR 49260, dated 2 November 1967, sent from. the ©
Assistant DDP, Mr. Cord Meyer, slugged RYBAT MHPASHA, levied
the requirement on all field stations to produce information which —
could contribute to this study. :

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9. Iwas unable to locate any document from the President
or the White House in C1/SO records and finally contacted Mr. Dixon
Davis in OCI, He stated that the DDI has also searched its records ~
looking for a memorandum from the White House requesting.a study -
but had been unable to locate one. He did, however, have a copy.of .

“two memoranda,;- apparently prepared‘as cover-sheets-to: transmit’: aoe
the finished study to the President on I5 November 1967:: “Xerox |.

copies of these two memoranda are attached as TABs N and 0.

10. Mr. Ober was specifically desireous of taking ¢ copies of /
TABs N and O with him to use in his next appearance before the .

ground rules, he had to clear this with Mr, Knoche. Iarranged for

Mr. Knoche to call Mr. Ober. Asa result of a series of conversations -”.

between Mr. Knoche and Mr. Ober, Mr. White and Mr. Knoche and ~
myself and Mr. Knoche, Mr. Knoche authorized Mr. Ober to take .
copies of TABs N and O as reference material. If asked, Mr. Ober
could show these to the Rockefeller Commission but he was not
authorized to leave these papers with the Commission. He was told. __
to advise the Commission that, if they wanted copies, they ™ would

have to request same through Mr. Knoche. Soe oo

21. At the reguést of Mr. Knoche, lam making available a ‘copy
of this memorandum to the Inspector General, specifically, TABs N -
and O which Mr. Knoche felt had not previously. been made available
to that office. ; .

ORS wn, Jah.

Deputy Chief, East Asia Civision

Attachments

Distribution:
1 - 1G, w/atts
1 - Mr. Knoche, w/atts
1 - DC/OPS, w/atts
1 - ADDO, w/atts
1- DCEA, w/atts
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